Even before Schengen, the Swiss German border in Konstance was pretty relaxed. I walked across it a number of times without being checked, on one occasion there was actually somebody at the railway station border post who asked if I had anything to declare. I recall being driven across the border by someone with a card hanging from the rearview mirror stating "nothing to declare".
Andrew, I always enjoy your thoughtful and thorough comments about catholic religious buildings, although I'm a non-believer. These are marvellous pieces of architecture, no doubt about that, and your video footage is perfect as always. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your videos! I enjoy your comments and commentry. Your accompanying music, video production quality and informative content are all first class. I happened upon your videos whilst exploring things German, (I am learning the language), and am so glad that I did. Whilst I might not be intending to live in Germany, I am now retired and I don't think my wife will want to move countries again, (we moved from the UK to Canada 14 years ago!), but one never knows what the future holds!
We did a boat trip from Schaffhausen to Konstanz with my disabled partner and stayed in the Ibis Budget in Konstanz and the following day took the boat across Lake Constance (Bodensee) to Lindau
8:31 there is the myth that Constance in an attempt not to be bombarded because it would be mistaken for Friedrichshafen, where war equipment was produced, ignored a command from the Wehrmacht that during a bombardement, every light has to be turned off, to make it more difficult to aim for the allies. Anyways they left their lights on in order to be mistaken for switzerland, which of course wasn’t a target. And it worked as das as I know, no bomb ever struck Constance.
Referring to another video: This minster could actually once named a cathedral, before the citizens exiled the bishop during the reformation to Meersburg at the other side of the lake.
I hope that in the future, you can go visit Lahr close to the Rhine on the route between Frankfurt and Basel. Reason why is that I was posted at CFB Lahr for a while in 1985 and I hope to learn how the town's fared since the Canadians and other parts of NATO pulled out after the end of the Cold War.
Damn son! You're all red! Wandering around outdoors all day with a camera will do that I guess. In 1989 my roommate and I took the train from his cousin's place in Gengenbach to see the garden at Mainau---one of the best memories of my time there. Really liked this video--especially when you do the bit to camera on location. Super!
Hey Andrew , what an amazing informative and well filmed video again! I really adore the way you combine your well researched facts with the footage and music......the tunes always fit the issue so well. This leads me to a question which has been on my mind for a while: Do you have enough links to some creative commons licensed tunes or are you interested in some more? (Sure, I don't know if the ones I know wouldn't be the ones you already have on your radar, but if you are looking for some more it could be worth the trial. If you want me to email you some, just let me know!) Keep it on!
This was a very good video and I liked it for the following reasons: You held on the sights just long enough to appreciate them. Good timing there. I've actually been to Konstanz once or twice before, but was either too busy to sightsee or the Christopher Street Day was happening. It's kinda hard to appreciate the architecture when a bunch of half naked gay dudes are in the process of drapeing banners all over it. The streets were also clogged with people so it was hard to get around. Now, if you're looking for a party, the CSD in Konstanz is fantastic and I can recommend it to you in that aspect. The local border dispute is kinda hilarious. I didn't know that much about it in depth, so that was good. Thank you rewboss.
Did anyone use the Chinese Restaurant Shun Feng in the row of shops by the side - the food was okay and there were vegetarian options - I cannot remember the price but it seemed reasonable.
hello again from the Basque Country, the guy who commented about the Korean sign (not sure if you will remember anyways haha) I wonder if you could make a video on the topic of reunification. Many of my South Korean friends think that unifying Korea would be bad for the South Korean economy in the short run and so some of them don't want reunification. I wonder if it was the same in Germany back then. Also do you think in Germany there is any kind of discrimination towards people from Austria or Switzerland? Let me explain. I was really shocked when I watched a documentary about how in Korea Town in California, North Koreans are discriminated (South Koreans discriminate North Koreans in the USA). That remind me of the west Germans who went to sell expensive bananas illegally to East Germany because East Germans had not tried bananas. I don't know first hand any of this. And I'm obviously generalizing only to explain simply. Please other subscribers don't shoot at me (like my Korean friends did when I suggested that discrimination levels in Korea are ridiculous)
Let me give you my thoughts as a German, having grown up in the western part of Germany: Discrimination against Swiss and Austrians - not really. There are sometimes animosities between some people when it comes to sporting events or some political issues but nothing serious. Imho reunification between North and South Korea will be on a whole other level compared to German reunification - not only on economic issues. But speaking of the costs, for me it's pretty obvious that this will be a big blow to the South Korean economy. Not only in the short term. We are speaking of decades of billions of dollars worth of investments to get the completely run down infrastructure (roads, railroads, housing, schools, universities, power plants,... ) in North Korea to a level where it is somewhat similar to the South. In the meantime the South would have to build up a liberal, democratic, free market society which never existed in the North before. Keep in mind in Germany this task was way easier to do since German reunification was started by an uprising of the the East German ppl. Also Germany was a Democratic nation for some years after WW1 and 1933. With a very liberal constitution. So ppl in East Germany had the experience how democracy works and they could see the advantages of individual freedom and the power of capitalism and would change their political system for themselves first, before their newly founded Eastern states would join the western federal German states. If you compare that to the situation in North Korea, where I can't see any signs of a popular uprising against a decades old dictatorial regime, run by a family of demi-god figures, I can't imagine the effort it will take to reunite not only those two separate nations economically, but also the mindset of the ppl of those two nations to form a coherent, functioning society.
Before German unification, most politicians used to tell us west Germans that there would be a flourishing economy in the east very soon. There were few politicians who told the truth, though (that basically it would kind of ruin our economy and we would have to pay the debts for decades, maybe for centuries...) but no one really even wanted to listen to them and only few people voted for them. They were right in hindsight, and many mistakes were made in the heat of the moment. The consequences aren't only visible in the economy, but also in still very different mentalities and sometimes feelings of envy or animosity for each other. But if we could turn back time, we would probably make the same decision again. Discrimination against swiss or austrian people, well I'm married to an Austrian and lived in Austria for some time. To me it seems like we Germans love the Austrians but maybe we don't always take them 100% serious. We always seem to have a kind of snobby attitude against "those mountain people from that cute little country" (exaggerated of course!!!). That's probably why Austrians look at us much more critically and have their own prejudices against us Germans, e.g. we always think we know better than them, we try to dominate the language usage etc. It's somehow hard to describe :-) In Vienna, where I used to live for many years, I sometimes experienced real xenophobia and discrimination for my being German. The other way round, my husband isn't even really seen as a foreigner here, because people think, Austria and Germany, well, that's the same thing anyway, isn't it! So I don't think he has ever been discriminated against herein Germany.
Katharina Lauer Western Germany and its businesses profited a lot from the reunification, it was the east that payed the price by total economical breakdown. Well, Northern Korea seems to be very down already, while the GDR has been the cheapest workbench for the west. Ah yes, the increased taxes we're mainly from people who did Not Profit, Like always ;-)
danke danke thank you very very much I'm really happy I got such good explanations German language is popular among Basque speakers because Basque also has declension, we also have TZ sounds and so on, but I studied Korean instead, sorry haha, Japanese and Korean are also popular here, because we say the verb always at the end, like Koreans or Japanese. So for example it´s easier to translate from Korean into Basque ( just change word by word) than from European languages where you have to change word order.
Well, this video took me about two weeks to make: three days filming, nearly two days travel (because I don't live in Frankfurt), and the rest for research and editing. I'd love to be able to make more and longer videos, but I still can't afford to do this full time.
Ah wow, I have a true respect for you. I didn't mean to discount your hard work, I hope you don't take it like that. I understand that it takes a lot of time and effort to put high quality videos like these together. So once again I must say thank you. Its my favorite channel and makes my day to see you post (both channels). There's such a positive energy to your videos--I watch them right before I start my work. Your knowledge, wit, and presentation is tops. God-willing I will be supporting you when I have the ability. God bless! #rewBOSS
As mentioned, Switzerland is not in the EU. I did visit Switzerland on business a couple of years ago and forgot I had data roaming enabled. I came home to a €70 bill. That was not nice.
So, my hometown, that lays 655 km away, was besieged twice and my neighbourhood ravaged by war in 1429 by Hussite army just because some bois in Konstanz didn't like Jan Hus?
It wasnt just some bois, it was pretty much the Catholic church. Which has an impressive track record in causing religious uprisings and conflicts, so thank them.
I actually live in Constance and can tell that you kinda get used to the lake if you were born here or just lived here for quite some time.
Ich wohne in Konstanz und muss sagen: Hervorragender Bericht.
Des hani au scho gsait. Scho erstunlich, waser zsammenbringt.
I like the new "How to get there" segment
Even before Schengen, the Swiss German border in Konstance was pretty relaxed. I walked across it a number of times without being checked, on one occasion there was actually somebody at the railway station border post who asked if I had anything to declare. I recall being driven across the border by someone with a card hanging from the rearview mirror stating "nothing to declare".
I love your travelogues. So informative and beautiful. Great job, please keep them coming! Thank you.
Very underrated city.
You explained konstanz very well! Danke schön!
This is your best video yet! Really enjoyed this on a quiet Saturday morning. Thanks.
Andrew, I always enjoy your thoughtful and thorough comments about catholic religious buildings, although I'm a non-believer. These are marvellous pieces of architecture, no doubt about that, and your video footage is perfect as always. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your videos! I enjoy your comments and commentry. Your accompanying music, video production quality and informative content are all first class. I happened upon your videos whilst exploring things German, (I am learning the language), and am so glad that I did. Whilst I might not be intending to live in Germany, I am now retired and I don't think my wife will want to move countries again, (we moved from the UK to Canada 14 years ago!), but one never knows what the future holds!
Konstanz ♥ I lived near Konstanz in Singen (Hohentwiel) for a wile. Was a great time :-)
We did a boat trip from Schaffhausen to Konstanz with my disabled partner and stayed in the Ibis Budget in Konstanz and the following day took the boat across Lake Constance (Bodensee) to Lindau
and we saw Zeppelins as the manufacturers are in Zeppelin on the north coast of the Bodensee.
@@johncrwarner yes. Friedrichshafen!
Very interesting and useful!!! Danke!
I agree with clydesight- these german city travalogues are brilliant. Great professional videography and excellent commentary !
Great video. Seems to be a lovely city to visit.
Great video. Love the "colourful" sculptures!
I have been a big fan of your travelogues for years now! Keep them coming please!!
8:31 there is the myth that Constance in an attempt not to be bombarded because it would be mistaken for Friedrichshafen, where war equipment was produced, ignored a command from the Wehrmacht that during a bombardement, every light has to be turned off, to make it more difficult to aim for the allies. Anyways they left their lights on in order to be mistaken for switzerland, which of course wasn’t a target. And it worked as das as I know, no bomb ever struck Constance.
Mimikry into Switzerland makes perfect sense in this location. This myth might be true.
Great Video with very nice footage. After living for over years in Konstanz, I still learnt something new.
In former times there was a direct busline between Paradies and graveyard.
Much fun with your fantasie.
Fascinating tour videos!
I have to say this is a very interesting overview of my hometown :D
Lovely!
Interessant, dass der Bodensee auf englisch "Lake Konstanz" heißt. Bei uns heißt er auch das "schwäbische Meer". Eine sehr schöne Gegend!
yay Konstanz isnt far from my place. that's almost home.
amazing and beautyful photography
Great Destination!!!!
The same cellphone thing exists in Haparanda in the north of Sweden, where you can randomly connect to the Finnish network.
Referring to another video: This minster could actually once named a cathedral, before the citizens exiled the bishop during the reformation to Meersburg at the other side of the lake.
Looks an interesting place.I'm in Mannheim for a week in august so may pay a visit to Konstanz.Thank you for the video...
Quality content. good work
Konstanz has become my favorite city in Germany. I love all the public art in the city.
excellent video especially the hotel travel tips
Great vid! Keep em coming!
Well done!
Thanks this video was very calming
I hoped you visited Reichenau while you have been there.
I hope that in the future, you can go visit Lahr close to the Rhine on the route between Frankfurt and Basel. Reason why is that I was posted at CFB Lahr for a while in 1985 and I hope to learn how the town's fared since the Canadians and other parts of NATO pulled out after the end of the Cold War.
Damn son! You're all red! Wandering around outdoors all day with a camera will do that I guess. In 1989 my roommate and I took the train from his cousin's place in Gengenbach to see the garden at Mainau---one of the best memories of my time there.
Really liked this video--especially when you do the bit to camera on location. Super!
Hey Andrew , what an amazing informative and well filmed video again!
I really adore the way you combine your well researched facts with the footage and music......the tunes always fit the issue so well. This leads me to a question which has been on my mind for a while: Do you have enough links to some creative commons licensed tunes or are you interested in some more? (Sure, I don't know if the ones I know wouldn't be the ones you already have on your radar, but if you are looking for some more it could be worth the trial. If you want me to email you some, just let me know!)
Keep it on!
This was a very good video and I liked it for the following reasons:
You held on the sights just long enough to appreciate them. Good timing there.
I've actually been to Konstanz once or twice before, but was either too busy to sightsee or the Christopher Street Day was happening. It's kinda hard to appreciate the architecture when a bunch of half naked gay dudes are in the process of drapeing banners all over it. The streets were also clogged with people so it was hard to get around.
Now, if you're looking for a party, the CSD in Konstanz is fantastic and I can recommend it to you in that aspect.
The local border dispute is kinda hilarious. I didn't know that much about it in depth, so that was good.
Thank you rewboss.
you can pay with Euros everywhere in switzerland that is somewhat close to the border.... so everywhere
You might not get the best exchange rate, though. And you'll probably get your change in cash.
The exchange rate is fluctuating, so thats true. However i live around konstanz and i have not used Franken in the last 2 years or so.
I know the hotel. Been there and I can support your claim that it is a good location.
Did anyone use the Chinese Restaurant Shun Feng in the row of shops by the side - the food was okay and there were vegetarian options - I cannot remember the price but it seemed reasonable.
Good post my friend ❤️🇩🇪🍻
hello again from the Basque Country, the guy who commented about the Korean sign (not sure if you will remember anyways haha) I wonder if you could make a video on the topic of reunification. Many of my South Korean friends think that unifying Korea would be bad for the South Korean economy in the short run and so some of them don't want reunification. I wonder if it was the same in Germany back then. Also do you think in Germany there is any kind of discrimination towards people from Austria or Switzerland? Let me explain. I was really shocked when I watched a documentary about how in Korea Town in California, North Koreans are discriminated (South Koreans discriminate North Koreans in the USA). That remind me of the west Germans who went to sell expensive bananas illegally to East Germany because East Germans had not tried bananas. I don't know first hand any of this. And I'm obviously generalizing only to explain simply. Please other subscribers don't shoot at me (like my Korean friends did when I suggested that discrimination levels in Korea are ridiculous)
Let me give you my thoughts as a German, having grown up in the western part of Germany: Discrimination against Swiss and Austrians - not really. There are sometimes animosities between some people when it comes to sporting events or some political issues but nothing serious.
Imho reunification between North and South Korea will be on a whole other level compared to German reunification - not only on economic issues. But speaking of the costs, for me it's pretty obvious that this will be a big blow to the South Korean economy. Not only in the short term. We are speaking of decades of billions of dollars worth of investments to get the completely run down infrastructure (roads, railroads, housing, schools, universities, power plants,... ) in North Korea to a level where it is somewhat similar to the South. In the meantime the South would have to build up a liberal, democratic, free market society which never existed in the North before. Keep in mind in Germany this task was way easier to do since German reunification was started by an uprising of the the East German ppl. Also Germany was a Democratic nation for some years after WW1 and 1933. With a very liberal constitution. So ppl in East Germany had the experience how democracy works and they could see the advantages of individual freedom and the power of capitalism and would change their political system for themselves first, before their newly founded Eastern states would join the western federal German states.
If you compare that to the situation in North Korea, where I can't see any signs of a popular uprising against a decades old dictatorial regime, run by a family of demi-god figures, I can't imagine the effort it will take to reunite not only those two separate nations economically, but also the mindset of the ppl of those two nations to form a coherent, functioning society.
Before German unification, most politicians used to tell us west Germans that there would be a flourishing economy in the east very soon. There were few politicians who told the truth, though (that basically it would kind of ruin our economy and we would have to pay the debts for decades, maybe for centuries...) but no one really even wanted to listen to them and only few people voted for them. They were right in hindsight, and many mistakes were made in the heat of the moment. The consequences aren't only visible in the economy, but also in still very different mentalities and sometimes feelings of envy or animosity for each other. But if we could turn back time, we would probably make the same decision again.
Discrimination against swiss or austrian people, well I'm married to an Austrian and lived in Austria for some time. To me it seems like we Germans love the Austrians but maybe we don't always take them 100% serious. We always seem to have a kind of snobby attitude against "those mountain people from that cute little country" (exaggerated of course!!!). That's probably why Austrians look at us much more critically and have their own prejudices against us Germans, e.g. we always think we know better than them, we try to dominate the language usage etc. It's somehow hard to describe :-) In Vienna, where I used to live for many years, I sometimes experienced real xenophobia and discrimination for my being German. The other way round, my husband isn't even really seen as a foreigner here, because people think, Austria and Germany, well, that's the same thing anyway, isn't it! So I don't think he has ever been discriminated against herein Germany.
Katharina Lauer Western Germany and its businesses profited a lot from the reunification, it was the east that payed the price by total economical breakdown. Well, Northern Korea seems to be very down already, while the GDR has been the cheapest workbench for the west. Ah yes, the increased taxes we're mainly from people who did Not Profit, Like always ;-)
danke danke thank you very very much I'm really happy I got such good explanations German language is popular among Basque speakers because Basque also has declension, we also have TZ sounds and so on, but I studied Korean instead, sorry haha, Japanese and Korean are also popular here, because we say the verb always at the end, like Koreans or Japanese. So for example it´s easier to translate from Korean into Basque ( just change word by word) than from European languages where you have to change word order.
A guidebook I read said they avoided WW2 bombs by keeping their lights on so the Allies thought it was Switzerland.....
If I haven't missed it yet... Still in it you to Trier. Can stay at our place, if you want to... ✌️
whhhhooot i saw so many videos from you and now i see u really was in MY city. thats strange. and why do u know so many local facts?
Great Job! Referring to how to get there section, any idea if Baden-Württemberg day pass works for travel from Heidelberg to Konstanz?
Yes it does, take the S-Bahn to Karlsruhe from there is a direct regional train to Konstanz, takes about 4 hours.
Great video! Can they all be this long? and can you talk more? thank you for your work!
Well, this video took me about two weeks to make: three days filming, nearly two days travel (because I don't live in Frankfurt), and the rest for research and editing. I'd love to be able to make more and longer videos, but I still can't afford to do this full time.
Ah wow, I have a true respect for you. I didn't mean to discount your hard work, I hope you don't take it like that. I understand that it takes a lot of time and effort to put high quality videos like these together. So once again I must say thank you. Its my favorite channel and makes my day to see you post (both channels). There's such a positive energy to your videos--I watch them right before I start my work. Your knowledge, wit, and presentation is tops. God-willing I will be supporting you when I have the ability. God bless! #rewBOSS
When where you in Konstanz? I think I saw you :D
Last week. Did I look very tired?
21:00
Great video, although you could have easily paid a visit to Meersburg, which is itself a major tourist destination in this area, and is quite nearby
I didn't have time for Meersburg, but I did visit another place on the lake. I'll be making a video about that as well.
I'm still hoping he visited the isle of Reichenau.
I thought the EU had banned roaming surcharges?
It did, but Switzerland unfortunately isn't part of the EU
grüne Tinte that's right, but last year my mobile provider did not charge me in Switzerland
Jordi de Bont You either were linked to your German provider's network or got an international data option
Ralf Jansen neither, just plain a KPN data plan
As mentioned, Switzerland is not in the EU. I did visit Switzerland on business a couple of years ago and forgot I had data roaming enabled. I came home to a €70 bill. That was not nice.
So, my hometown, that lays 655 km away, was besieged twice and my neighbourhood ravaged by war in 1429 by Hussite army just because some bois in Konstanz didn't like Jan Hus?
It wasnt just some bois, it was pretty much the Catholic church. Which has an impressive track record in causing religious uprisings and conflicts, so thank them.
It was the Emperor who betrayed Jan Hus.